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Terahertz waves in full-body radiation scanners – especially harmful

the type of radiation the scanners emit is particularly harmful. Terahertz waves, the type of radiation emitted, have been described by Los Alamos researchers as “ripping DNA apart.”

Scanners Aren’t the Solution DISSIDENT VOICE Joshua Fulton / January 14th, 2010 “…….The astonishing thing was that hardly anyone in the mainstream media mentioned that a full-body scanner would not have been able to detect the chemical Abdulmutuallah brought onto the plane with him. Continue reading →

January 17, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Aborigines finally get back radiation tainted land

The worst contamination came not from the bombs blasted, but from the so-called “minor trials” of weapons components that took place for another six years.………….Australia did not recognise the aborigines’ claims to the land

Atomic amends Jan 15th 2010 | MARALINGA The Economist
A blighted site is handed back to the people displaced by British bombs FROM the air, Maralinga looks much like the rest of Australia’s outback: vast, red and empty. Up close, there are differences. Continue reading →

January 17, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | indigenous issues | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Atomic radiation standards exclude many victims

Minister: A-bomb disease law too narrow TOKYO, Jan. 15 (UPI) — Japan needs to recognize more people who suffer from radiation disease caused by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Continue reading →

January 17, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, Legal | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Uranium mining endangers Grand Canyon – to feed Korea’s nukes

Uranium mining resumes near Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Trust News January 14, 2010 by gctrust

Denison Mines, a Canadian company, recently revived operations at the Arizona 1 uranium mine on the Arizona Strip adjacent to Grand Canyon. This industrial activity threatens not only the visitor experience at Grand Canyon National Park, but the water supply for twenty-five million people in Nevada, southern California, and Arizona, as well as seeps and springs in the park. Worse yet is the fact that much of the uranium will be shipped to Korea.

January 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Doctor recommends radio wave airport scanners, not X-ray radiation ones

Sorry, Uncle Sam, I refuse to be ionized, The Daily Observer (Canada) By DR. GIFFORD-JONES15 Jan 2010

“………Transport Canada reports that more than 40 scanners will be installed in Canadian airports. Fortunately, all of these scanners will use “millimeter wave” technology. This means travellers will be exposed to radio frequency waves that produce a three-dimensional image of a person’s body to detect hidden weapons or explosives. Radio waves are not the same as harmful X-ray ionizing radiation to be used in the U.S. Continue reading →

January 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Protest against NASA’s radiation tests on monkeys

Because of the biological differences between species, results of radiation experiments on monkeys cannot be reliably applied to humans.

PETA Calls On Space Agency to Ground Cruel and Wasteful Tests and Use 21st Century Research Methods Instead

PETS Media Center
January 13, 2010

Contact:
David Perle 757-622-7382

Washington — Alongside a person wearing a space suit and holding signs that read, “Stop Radiation Tests on Monkeys,” PETA members protest outside the National Air and Space Museum in response to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) plan to subject as many as 28 squirrel monkeys to a massive dose of gamma radiation. Continue reading →

January 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Nuclear workers had to drink uranium mixture

..the special committee decided only to reprimand verbally the two researchers who initiated the study…

Inside Intel / Uranium, down the hatch Haaretz.com By Yossi Melman 14 Jan 2010 Last August, Haaretz revealed that workers at the Dimona nuclear reactor had been required to participate in an experiment in which they drank a certain quantity of uranium mixed with juice. Continue reading →

January 14, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, secrets,lies and civil liberties | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Utah – depleted uranium to be tested for radioactivity

environmental group says it reviewed shipping manifests for some of the waste and found the barrels contain waste in concentrations higher than state law allows EnergySolutions to accept.

Utah governor orders depleted uranium testing The Associated Press

TheSunNews.com Jan. 13, 2010 SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has ordered the testing of barrels of depleted uranium from South Carolina to see how radioactive it is. Continue reading →

January 14, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes | antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Breast cancer risk increased due to early radiation exposure

Cancer News: Early radiation exposure raises breast cancer risk Jan 11, 2010 (foodconsumer.org) –– Exposure to radiotherapy or radiation-based diagnostics like computed tomography (CT scans) in early childhood increases breast cancer risk in adulthood, a new study in the Jan 2010 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention…… Continue reading →

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, health | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Airport scanning and radiation

Radiation and whole-body scanners Budget Travel by: Sean O’Neill, Jan 12,” …………….. a short Q&A on the topic of cancer risk and whole-body scanning machines.
The Transportation Security Administration TSA has deployed two types of scanners. One type uses X-rays and emits some ionizing radiation. These machines are called “backscatter” scanners. The other type of machine uses radio waves, does not emit ionizing radiation, and produces fuzzier images. Continue reading →

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

The two types of airport scanners

Imaging Technology Transportation Security Administration (TSA) 13 Jan 2010
“………Use of advanced imaging technology is optional to all passengers.

Millimeter Wave

Millimeter wave technology beams millimeter wave radio frequency (RF) energy in the advanced imaging spectrum over the body’s surface at high speed from two antennas simultaneously as they rotate around the body.
The energy reflected back from the body or other objects on the body is used to construct a three-dimensional image.
The three-dimensional image, with facial features blurred for privacy, is displayed on a remote monitor for analysis.

Backscatter

Backscatter technology uses low level X-ray to create a two-sided image.
TSA is testing backscatter with an algorithm applied to the entire image to further protect passenger privacy.

TSA: Imaging Technology

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Wisconsin’s Clean Energy Jobs Act would sneak in a bonus for nuclear

Unfortunately, one of the most important environmental measures ever to come before our state Legislature – the Clean Energy Jobs Act, or Assembly Bill 649 – contains a provision that would weaken our nuclear safeguards. The provision would completely remove the requirement for a nuclear waste repository.

Diane Farsetta: Remove nuclear provisions from Clean Energy Jobs Act LaCrosse Tribune By Diane Farsetta / Madison January 11, 2010 Continue reading →

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, energy efficiency, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Obama recognising nuclear terrorism as the greatest risk

Shifting Nuclear Strategy To Focus On Nuclear Terrorism The Wonk Room, National Secvurity By Max Bergmann 13 Jan 2010 In a reported shift that has the nuclear bureaucracy in the Pentagon up in arms, the President wants the new Nuclear Posture Review – the document that lays out US nuclear strategy to actually focus on the gravest security threat to this country: nuclear terrorism. Continue reading →

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Depleted uranium – the ultimate ‘friendly fire’

POISON BULLETS – depleted uranium munitions – the ultimate friendly fire (Video) Free Planet by Mike Philbin 13 Jan 2010
Many American and British soldiers who have returned from Iraq are complaining about Depleted Uranium-related illnesses. They accuse both the Pentagon and the UK Ministry of Defense of covering up the problem.

Poison Bullets follows doctors and experts as they voice their opposing views in the DU controversy and travels to the US, Great Britain, Jordan, Iraq and Spain, where we meet many of those who are victims of both DU-related diseases and the indifference of government officials.

January 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, depleted uranium | antinuclear, cancer, depleted, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Connecticut River gets radioactive leak from nuclear plant

Test suggests radioactive leak at Yankee Rutland Herald

By Susan Smallheer Staff Writer January 8, 2010

BRATTLEBORO — Entergy Nuclear announced late Thursday one of its monitoring wells on the banks of the Connecticut River had detected radioactive tritium contamination, the first time such contamination has shown up at the plant. Continue reading →

January 8, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment